Game apparatus



(No Model.)

J. R.BRENNAN. GAME APPARATUS.

No. 588,264. Patented Aug. 1'7, 1897.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY.

A stationary field with radial partitions on hopper on the upper part of said hood-above its upper face forming pockets; a stationary the apex of the body, said parts being cornbody rising frorn the center of said field, pins projecting from the side of said body, and a stationary hood covering said vbody above the partitions of the field, and engaging on its inner face with the heads of said pins, and a bined forming an improved game apparatus. 10

JOHN R. BRENNAN.

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NICHOLAS DONNELLY, HARROLD WILEMAN.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. BRENNAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 588,264, dated August 1'7, 1897.

Application filed November 14, 1896. Serial No. 612,052. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN R. BRENNAN,a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Game Apparatus, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a game apparatus embodying a field with pockets thereon and a block or body rising therefrom, pins projecting from said block, and a hood inclosing said block and pins, so as to be engaged with the heads of said pins and to form channels for the passage of balls or marbles which are admitted into the hood and caused to pass through said channels and be discharged into the pockets, which are numbered, said parts being combined and arranged as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a game apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top or plan view of the base portion or field thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a field 011 whose upper faces are the radial partitions B, which divide said field into pockets 0, the bottoms of which are inclined.

Rising from the center D of the field is a cone or conical body E, from which project the pins F, which arearranged alternately to each other, so as to form broken or circuitous channels from the top to the bottom of the cone.

G designates a point which is the apex of the cone, the same having a plain surface which forms a continuity with the body of said cone and is preferably formed of metal.

H designates a hood of conical form, the same covering the cone E in contact with the heads of the pins F, thereby forming an exterior cover for the channels between the pins, the pins being sustained on the hood, and

thus prevented from being broken down and serving by their contact with said hood to hold the latter in position over the conical body E and the partitions 13.

It will be noticed that the peripheral portion of the base of the hood II is open and is of such diameter that it rests on the partitions B and overhangs the inner ends of the latter, causing the channels between the bottom row of pins F to be in communication with the pockets 0. I

The top of the hood II is provided with a hopper J for the entrance of marbles or balls K, with which the game is played. The lower portion of said hopperis contracted, forming a neck which admits of the introduction of but a single ball, and the point of the piece G is centrally below said neck, so that the ball will primarily strike the same, after which it will roll down the side of the piece, avoiding abrupt dropping of the ball on the pins,which are nevertheless below the hopper, thus preventing battering or breaking down of the pins, it being noticed that the hood and body are stationary andthat said'body is supported on the radial partitions of the pockets, while overhanging the under ends of said partitions.

The operation is as follows: The balls are introduced into the hopper J, and, dropping therefrom, enter the space between the hood II and the apex G of the cone, said apex being such that its point will not be battered by the dropping balls, and said balls, furthermore, are not obstructed in their descent by said apex. Consequently they drop forcibly into the channels between the pins, and they may strike the pins and then bound from one to the other and move in circuitous directions through the passages between the pins until they reach the bottom of the cone and hood, when they enter the pockets and are retained therein by the peripheral rim L of the field, it being noticed that there is no regularityin the motion of the balls. Consequently they may be directed into any pocket, the pockets being differently numbered, the highest numbers being of course the desirable ones for the winner.

Proper rules will be established for playing the game.

Ilaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 

